Bill Tammeus

Bill Tammeus, a former award-winning faith columnist for The Kansas City Star, writes the "Faith Matters" blog for The Star's Web site and a monthly column for Flatland, KCPT-TV's digital magazine. His latest book is Love, Loss and Endurance: A 9/11 Story of Resilience and Hope in an Age of Anxiety. Email him at wtammeus@gmail.com.

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Environmentally, an unbridled, run-amok growth is killing us

It's not too late to listen to what Thomas Merton says about violence

Why God matters to me and why I might matter to God

How churches can keep up with the evolving definition of marriage

What happens when religion becomes devoid of spirit and awe?

Opening minds with the Bible's books of the apocrypha

Funerals should celebrate life, but they should also retell the Gospel story

The death penalty will exist as long as people of faith stay silent

Removal of church leaders should involve due process of our own hearts

Relics mean something, but they don't mean everything

Book tells story of 11 prophetic women

One way to live Matthew 25: Learn how to be a healing presence

Marriages start in a church, but where is the church when one ends?

Hope for 'a more friendly fellowship' courtesy of the Parliament of the World's Religions

The NFL reflects the worst of our humanity

Church dialogue on race relations necessary after recent turmoil

Let's commit to forging lasting bonds between Christians and Muslims

It's past time to update seminaries for a 21st-century church

No simple solution to uneven relations between Christians and Jews

Episcopal church celebrates 40 years of women in the priesthood

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